Bryony Marks : Associate Artist

Bryony Marks completed a Postgraduate Diploma in
Music Composition for Film and Television with first class
honours from the University of Melbourne's Conservatorium of
Music. In 2001 she attended the inaugural Australian National
Academy of Music Composers' Program, taking classes with
professor Simon Bainbridge, Head of Composition at the Royal
Academy of Music in London; and Karen Tanaka, formerly of IRCAM,
Paris.

In addition to several scores for theatre, Bryony Marks has
received numerous commissions for chamber orchestra, including
three string quartets, a quintet and a sextet, an opera excerpt
and a one-hour chamber opera entitled Crossing Live,
which was premiered by Chamber Made in 2007. In 2004 she was
invited to participate in the Song Company and the Australian
Music Centre's MODART05.

In 2005 she composed the music for
Chris Lilley's award-winning series for ABC TV, We Can Be
Heroes. In 2007 she worked with him again on Summer
Heights High (ABC TV). She also composed the music for the
TV feature, The King (based on the life of Graham
Kennedy), and Matthew Saville's debut feature film,
Noise. In early 2008 Marks collaborated with Roger Mason
on the music for SBS's new brand identity, delivering more than
200 individual pieces for on-air, radio and internet. In 2009 she
completed work on the new TV series for Southern Star,
Tangle, with directors Stuart McDonald, Matthew Saville
and Jessica Hobbs.

In 2010, Bryony Marks completed
work on the Hawke telemovie for Channel Ten, directed by
Emma Freeman; the ABC TV series, Dance Academy; the
second series of Tangle for Southern Star and Chris
Lilley's new ABC/HBO television series, Angry Boys.
Since then, she has composed the music for the mini-series
Cloudstreet for Showtime, third series of
Tangle for Southern Star, feature film
Goddess,ITV mini-series Mrs
Biggs, and Josh Thomas' ABC TV comedy series Please Like
Me.

Bryony Marks is currently adapting the
children's book The Happiness Box for the Melbourne
Symphony Orchestra and will shortly commence work on the upcoming
feature film Felony.

Noise - '... With tinnitus
as their starting point, director Matthew Saville, composer
Bryony Marks, and sound designer Emma Bortignon, have created one
of the most involving, haunting and deeply integrated sound
worlds in Australian cinema.' (Keith Gallasch, RealTime
81)

Crossing Live -
'... a funny, cleverly constructed opera/musical that
takes a serious tilt at the contemporary populist media'. (The
judges of the 2008 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards)